He said he feared debate on such legislation would slow debate on other issues.

''No Jefferson County bills in the call. It seems to bog everything down,'' he said.

Bentley's decision to exclude from his call for a special session any Jefferson County revenue bills or any local bills affecting just one county or city makes it unlikely that any revenue bill for the county will pass in this special session.

Any bill the governor lists as one of his priorities for a special session can pass with simple majority votes in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Any bill not in the governor's special session call can pass only with two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate.

Bentley asked lawmakers in this special session to redraw legislative districts to reflect population shifts shown by the 2010 census.

He also has asked them to once again debate changes to Alabama's immigration law. He said he wants to change a section that requires public schools to determine whether each student was born outside U.S. jurisdiction or is the child of an illegal immigrant.

Bentley said he also wants to make sure that state Department of Homeland Security would not publicly list on the internet the names of illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

Lawmakers in the regular legislative session that ended Wednesday night refused to pass a bill that would have let the Jefferson County Commission impose an occupational tax that could have raised as much as $62 million a year.